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No Rights To Speak Of – Page 5 – Tracking the harms women face post-Roe

“It’s not being looked at as a crazy thing”: Emboldened Republicans renew push to restrict divorce

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The recent bills targeting no-fault divorce come against a backdrop of a slew of executive actions at the federal level that threaten civil rights and freedoms for a host of Americans. While these state bills have previously failed to gain any traction in their respective legislatures — Republican Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers’ 2024 attempt at eliminating no-fault … Read more

“Another barrier”: GOP “voter fraud” proposal could make it harder for married women to vote

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That’s where the SAVE Act presents an additional hurdle. If someone’s birth certificate does not match their legal name — which is more often the case for married women who have taken their spouse’s last name — they may have to provide additional documentation to register to vote under the measure. Marriage certificates and name-change … Read more

Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones

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Using almost identical language to that used by Vance, it has circulated statements claiming Smith-Connor is the victim of a “thought crime”. In reality, he had been prosecuted for breaching a public space protection order which had been put in place to protect staff and service users following issues with protests. The new buffer zone … Read more

JD Vance decried as extremist over attack on UK abortion clinic safe zones

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JD Vance has been labelled an “extremist” after he launched a broadside against the UK’s efforts to protect women seeking an abortion. The US vice-president’s criticisms of UK and Scottish policies on safe access zones around abortion clinics – part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe on Friday – were derided as inaccurate and misogynistic … Read more

‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis

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The US maternal mortality rate almost doubled between 2018 and 2022, with rates of deaths among Black and Indigenous expecting or new mothers increasing at a disproportionally fast clip. States that Donald Trump won may be hit especially hard by NIH cuts: they are home to some of the country’s worst maternal mortality rates. To … Read more

Two states are coming after a New York doctor for mailing abortion pills. Here’s what’s next.

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Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department said it did not believe Comstock prohibited mailing these pills. But abortion opponents have been pressing the Trump administration to change that policy. The Supreme Court’s most conservative members, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, have also expressed openness to that legal interpretation. That approach, too, could spark … Read more

Infant deaths continue to rise as more abortion bans are put in place, studies find

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The overturn of Roe v. Wade with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision has paved the way for legislation across the country to restrict reproductive health care. A pair of new studies shows the fallout of restrictive reproductive healthcare policies: More babies were born in states that enacted abortion bans between 2021 and 2023, and infant mortality … Read more